Regina Hall has some unexpected — and unwanted — house guests.
“I have squatters, roommates, I don’t know what you call them,” Hall, 54, joked while appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, February 3.
The Support the Girls actress then discovered that she has something in common with host Jimmy Kimmel — their homes have both been invaded by raccoons.
“Some call them pests, some call them pets,” Kimmel, 57, noted, before Hall admitted: “I call them f—ers!”
Kimmel showed security camera footage of multiple raccoons searching for food outside Hall’s home as his studio audience groaned in horror.
“Look at that little fat one right there,” Hall angrily complained as the video played. “They’re getting bigger every [day]! It’s not up there [in the footage] but I put these lights up. The lights and sounds are supposed to [discourage the racoons] but they think it’s a club!”
She went on: “It’s supposed to make them scared. It does nothing! They think it’s like paparazzi!”
The actress discovered that her pesky raccoons are searching for earthworms in the fresh sod she’d recently installed in her yard. Kimmel offered a unique solution – put a bucket of earthworms somewhere outside of her property to lure the raccoons away.
“They’d come back more,” Hall insisted.
Hall admitted she’d once got so frustrated by her uninvited guests that she’d nearly thrown an apple at the racoons in anger, but quickly clarified: “I didn’t [actually do it]!”
“[I realized] no, they’re going to think I’m feeding them,” she pointed out. “You can’t feed them.”
Kimmel’s second suggestion was a bit trickier, as he encouraged Hall to to put earthworms and other food on her “neighbor’s lawn” instead.
“Now, that’s a really good idea,” she agreed.
Hall later detailed her many attempts to rid her yard of these uninvited guests, though she’s had absolutely no success thus far.
“I put out mothballs, they’re supposed to not like mothballs,” she said. “I’ve put out peppers. I’ve done the lights… I gotta protect my lawn too! They’re so smart and tenacious, this has been going on, I swear, like six [or] seven months. They’ve got rights! It’s horrible.”
Kimmel shared that he’d been experiencing a similar problem at his home, after spotting raccoon-shaped footprints on his staircase.
“It could be a possum,” Kimmel theorized, but Hall corrected him: “It’s a raccoon, I know it!”
Hall warned Kimmel he might be in for more trouble if he has a swimming pool — the furry creatures have started to use hers to take baths.
“There’s salt butt prints surrounding my pool,” she vented. “Their fat asses have sat around and left stains around the entire pool. I can’t get them up!”
When Kimmel suggested Hall’s only solution might be to move out of her house, she conceded: “Maybe! I might have to! … One of [these raccoons] has been to prison, for sure!”
Hall appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote her Netflix movie O’Dessa, released via Hulu March 20. Stranger Things star Sadie Sink leads the post-apocalyptic musical as a farmer trying to save her lost love and recover a family heirloom in a strange and dangerous new world.
Jimmy Kimmel Live airs weeknights at 11.35p.m. ET on ABC.
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